Bücher machen: Mit Lena Zeise im Gespräch über ihre Arbeit als Illustratorin

In the organizer's words:

Which comes first, the picture or the text? How do you find the right pictures for a story? With her drawings, an illustrator complements the stories, brings characters to life and emphasizes the mood of a book. They make the text worlds - especially in children's books - more tangible and often more understandable for readers. We want to talk about all these aspects of bookmaking, creative work, inspiration and everyday challenges in a workshop discussion with book illustrator Lena Zeise.

Our guest Lena Zeise studied communication design and illustration at Münster University of Applied Sciences. She works mainly in the field of children's and non-fiction books. Her animal drawings are particularly noteworthy. She has been awarded various prizes and nominations for her work.

In the series "Making Books", people from the literary industry talk twice a year about the many invisible steps and aspects of making books. With translators, editors, literary agents, lawyers, literary critics, librarians, booksellers - and authors.

A cooperative event of the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture of the Working World (Dortmund) with the Institute for German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the bookstore proust wörter & schönes (Essen).